The bachelor's programme of Information and Communication offers a first approach to this subject in the context of a more general training in Human Sciences. In terms of skill acquisition, the programme has the aims of developing the students' capacity to elaborate interdisciplinary reflection, of helping them develop their skills of critical analysis, of initiating them in autonomous and personal study and of laying the foundation stones for future scientific research.

The first year of the bachelor's programme is dedicated to the acquisition of knowledge in the general disciplines of the ESPO Faculty. Different courses in the domain of Information and Communication Sciences will help to prepare the students for this discipline, both from a theoretical and an applied point of view, thanks to the work accomplished and to the integration of the topics in a disciplinary seminar. From the first year on, great importance is given to working autonomously. In the second year, the student will pursue his interdisciplinary education and go more deeply into the subject areas of Information and Communication Sciences. Finally, the third year is dedicated to research methods as well as to initiation into the main domains of Information and Communication.

The programme is thus designed for the student to progress gradually and become more and more personally involved in his own acquisition of knowledge and the development of his own critical analysis and autonomous reflection capacities from year to year. These university skills correspond to the stakes inherent in the Sciences of Information and Communication and involve capacities such as being able to analyse the media and various communication situations.

The bachelor's programme of Information and Communication comprises a major of 150 credits and a minor (or options) of 30 credits.

The major is composed of a pool of subjects common to the Faculty and of specific courses in Information and Communication. The common pool of subjects, shared by all the Bachelor's programmes of the ESPO Faculty, aims at fostering progressive orientation and providing rich academic training in the diversity of all the disciplines of the ESPO faculty. It consists of courses, seminars and the completion of a number of projects (on an individual or a group basis). The specific courses gradually introduce the student to the theories and methods of Information and Communication Sciences, all the while familiarising them with their main sectors : Journalism, Communication in companies and organisations...

The student may complete his programme by choosing :

- a minor (30 credits), to be spread over the last two years of the bachelor's programme. Those minors organised within the ESPO Faculty or by other departments within the Human Sciences are automatically accessible on the bachelor's programme of Information and Communication. Any other minor outside the Human Sciences may be requested by a student but is subject to the approval of the Supervisor of the bachelor's programme of Information and Communication

or

- options (30 credits) offered by other bachelor's programmes, on the condition that no special prerequisites need to be fulfilled. The choice of these courses will be assessed by the Programme Supervisor in accordance with the student's anticipated study programme.

Written and oral exams are aimed at checking the level of acquisition and the extent of the mastery of the concepts, theories, basic data and know-how within the subject areas concerned.

Certain pedagogical activities (tasks and exercises) take the form of ongoing evaluation. Among other forms of ongoing assessment, the use of multimedia pedagogical tools makes e-learning partly possible, which includes auto-evaluation procedures on a regular basis.

The programme is accessible to those possessing a secondary school-leaving certificate (c.f the "Access to Studies" part of the study programme for a precise description of the admission conditions and their particular cases).

The conditions and regular admission requirements are specified on the web page "Access to Studies". http://www.ucl.ac.be/etudes/libres/en/acces.html

The bachelor's degree in "Information and Communication" entitles direct acces to the master's programme of the same discipline delivered by any university institution within the French-speaking community of Belgium.

The student with a bachelor's degree in Information and Communication will, in principle, have access to the masters organised by the other departments within the Faculty of Economics, Social and Political Sciences or by other Faculties, subject to the fulfillment of the conditions and prerequisites specified by the bodies responsible for organising those programmes. In the case of lacking credits, these may be made up either by being added to the master's programme (if the number of lacking credits does not surpass 15), or by means of a complementary/preparatory year of studies before embarking on the master's programme.

Program Supervisor : Frédéric ANTOINE

Contact person for ESPO : Anne-Françoise MARISCAL, Jean-Claude GUYOT

Cécile Delannay

President : Michel Dorban

Secretary : Jean-Marie Yante

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• Minor in Political Sciences
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• Minor in Human and Social Sciences
• Minor in Economics
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• Minor in Business Studies
• Minor in Linguistics
• Minor in Hispanic Studies (*)
• Minor in Italian Studies (*)
• Minor in French Studies (*)
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(*) Minor with access criteria .